Word: fated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fact of painting, the reflex actions of being a painter - turning out canvases rather as a scalp, having no choice in the matter, grows hair. The subjects are only nominal, shallow receptacles for Picasso's prodigious instinct to survive. Their existence owes itself to fate, not to necessity. In this way, Picasso's last show is a depressing commentary on the idea that it is better to paint any thing than nothing; two years of silence would have rounded off that singular life better than these calamitous daubs. Yet in its way, the Avignon show may perform some...
This year, out of 1350 freshmen, Wilkinson said, 201 entered the pool and only 67 changed their affiliation. Wilkinson confided, proudly, that no students complained to him this year about their fate in the pool, but the dean added that he does usually receive some disappointed students...
...action taken against him, Almirante is convinced, will backfire badly. If convicted, he said with a smile, he would accept his fate; he evidently envisions a useful kind of martyrdom. During his imprisonment, he proclaimed, "Our battle, our movement, would become very much stronger...
...story that has been told many times over: how Pat Garrett shot down Billy the Kid, who was his friend. It has never been told so strangely, however, with such a stern sense of beauty and of fate, as it is here by Sam Peckinpah. He is one of the most prodigious of all American film makers, and perhaps also one of the most prodigal...
Board members differed far more than usual in their qualitative assessments of the cause, nature and fate of the boom. At times, Democrats jousted with Democrats, and liberal Keynesians agreed with conservative monetarists...